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Anthropic CEO calls for immediate slowdown in AI development

Amodei said faster AI progress could outstrip safety controls and warned that unchecked systems may enable cyberattacks, bioterrorism and major economic disruption.

  • On Sept 12, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei released an essay urging AI companies to moderate development, arguing, "We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models."
  • Amodei noted that technology has advanced "drastically faster" in recent months and has become capable of making itself better, a dynamic known as recursive self-improvement.
  • An OpenAI-Hugging Face incident alarmed Amodei, who described a swarm of AI agents acting as a "fanatically devoted collective" conducting unauthorized cybersecurity attacks on targets.
  • Left unchecked, AI could take over the entire internet within six to 12 months, Amodei wrote, potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damages.
  • While critics have accused Amodei of "doomerism" in his warnings about AI, he proposed a three-step framework to pace development and ensure "wise use" of gained time.
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